Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves

The phrase is a bit outdated for personal finance. I would probably say take care of the dollars and the hundred dollar bills will take care of themselves. Anyway the point is evidently clear. The point is that you need to take care of the little things and the big things will just come.

For example, if you’re looking to get ranked for a heavily searched keyword like “best vacuum cleaner”, don’t worry about it until you’ve taken care of the small things. If you’re not in position 1 for “best vacuum cleaner on the market”, “best vacuum cleaner 2012″ and all the other long tails, you’re not in a position to go rank for that keyword. While you’re busy winning the easy battles for these longtail keywords you’re going to end up winning the big battle too.

This is the best piece of advice I can give you. Do this and you’ll make money and you’ll be successful. If you don’t know what some of the long tails are, go look at your site stats. See what people are searching and see where you show up in the results. Once you get all those long tail keywords number one, I’ll give you permission to go after the big ones.

Good luck.

Let’s say that you have a site on dress pants. And let say there is a keyword you want to rank for like “pleated dress pants”. I don’t know how tough it is to rank for such a keyword and it really doesn’t matter. The point is that people are looking for attributes and characteristics of pleated dress pants. This means that you can go after things like:

black pleated dress pants
blue pleated dress pants
white pleated dress pants
tight pleated dress pants
baggy pleated dress pants
cotton pleated dress pants

You get the idea with those examples. People search all of those terms. Some might only have a few dozen searches a month and others will have a few hundred. The big thing I was trying to illustrate in my previous post was that this type of term is relatively easy to rank for if you target it.

I did a little experiment to see how this would end up working if applied two different ways. This experiment isn’t scientific in anyway, as I used different niches and the number of links may differ. I’ll give the examples as if they were pleated dress pants related. All pages are in the sub-directory of the main domain name.

Method A

Pleated Dress Pants main page that links to the following pages:

black pleated dress pants
blue pleated dress pants
yellow pleated dress pants
…
etc

Method B

Pleated Dress Pants main page that contains all the different keywords (or slight variations) within the pages content (obviously much longer piece of content).

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The question boils down to which one had better results from a search engine point of view. Personally I like method A better because you have laser targeted pages, which pretty much guarantee a click in the search results. Before starting I suspected method B would be the winner.

The Winner? Method B.

When you compare the attributes/characteristic keywords between the two you don’t notice that much of a difference. Some of the keywords hit the front page and some didn’t. With method B, the pages that did hit the front page were much closer to number 1, with many hitting it.

The big difference that separates the two is that the main keyword (pleated dress pants) is shuffling around position 10-12 with method B. With method A it is no where to be found and it makes sense. The fact is that when you build a link for red pleated dress pants, you’re also building a link for pleated dress pants.

I want to point out that this method isn’t as scientific as I’d like it to be. I didn’t send a lot of links to have conclusive results. But I did send fewer links to method B than I did to method A.

Mr. Obvious

This should bring home the obvious point. You should never be building pages of content targeting one keyword. There should always be other related keywords that you put in there. You don’t have to use a high density of those bonus keywords. One time or even zero times works fine. The point is that when you start building links to the page you focus equally on all the keywords you put in.

Something I never did was tell you how you should do that. I’m currently doing a test on a site of mine for two different keywords and seeing which way is best. One keyword has individual pages for each variation. So a page for grey dress pants, one for blue dress pants and on. The second keyword has one page, with all the keywords/colors added in. I didn’t use the exact keyword for all the colors, but I worked it in enough in variations. And I’m going to see which one is better. I’ll judge this basis on which one ranks the most variations in the top 10.

The second thing I’m doing is that I’m working on what I’ll call “hobby sites” mainly on web2.0 properties (blogger, wordpress, and my own domains). Hobby sites are the sites that you’re interested in and talking about. Usually it’s really easy for you to work on this site, but you don’t end up making any cash. This still holds true and the hobby sites aren’t being built to earn money. But I’ve noticed that some of my older hobby sites (3 years+) are actually strong forces (high PR, natural links, strong holdings for most keywords, mainly SE traffic). I’ve started to casually hand off links to some of my money sites. I don’t do it in a spammy way. I’m very careful, but I want more of these hobby sites to pass links off. I find that polarizing topics are the best (ie: anything politically). The reason is that you can express yourself how you want. There will be people that agree, people that are warm to your ideas and people that will absolutely hate it. And they’ll link to you from their sites telling you off. A link is a link.

The third thing is a move in diversification. I want to sell advertising space on a website. I know there is money on this, but I honestly don’t know much about it. I’ve started putting this into action. I have to build a very clean, informative site. We’ll see how this goes. I’m going to make one niche type of site that will do this. I’m also going to create a site for my local city that ranks for specific keywords and see if I can sell advertising space on my site locally (through email). I’m not going to actively go door to door because I want something that I can apply to every city I want, regardless of where I live.

These are currently the items that are in development. I’m hoping I can report on this within 6 months and give an idea of how it is working.

Edit:

One of my “hobby” sites has become very strong lately. The traffic has picked up. And that’s what I want. I want power I can push. I don’t need to monetize the site. Check out the jump in traffic below.

The month hasn’t even completed when it comes to Amazon, but as you can see I’ll probably settle somewhere around the $3600 mark. It’s been an interesting run and I really do enjoy the extra money that the Xmas season brings. Here are some interesting facts:

• Lowest sales day: Dec 25th with 9 sales.
• Lowest click volume day: Dec 24th with around 30% the average daily clicks.
• Highest sales day: Nov 29th (Cyber Monday)
• Highest click volume day: Nov 29th (Cyber Monday) with just under a 1000 clicks that day.

I should also point out that earnings with Amazon have been of a consistent daily average. Other programs I’ve used on the internet behave differently. Clickbank is a prime example of this. You’ll have below average days pretty much every day and then just one day you’ll have a shit load of sales and make a ton money. Amazon wasn’t like that. It was pretty consistent the whole way. I had a lot of $200+ days, but nothing that was explosive and really setting the mark.

So sticking both November and December together I’ll do a little more dissecting of the stats.

Total Profit: $6329.81 (sold $83,176.22 of Amazon products)

Of that profit, $2899.57 was earned by my top two sites.

The big disappointment was my Xmas sites earning only $277.83 of that profit. I think I know why this is the case, but I’ll go into this during a future post.

I could dissect all of this further and get into more detail, but I really don’t want to. Objective analysis is important for determining how things work for you, what is profitable and what is a waste of time. But there is a point where going through too much is just wasting time and literally a form of procrastinating. Go through your stats enough to understand what you did right, wrong and then move onto what you’re going to do.

2011 Goals

This is going to be a tough year for me because I have some very big goals. And these goals are outside the realm of internet marketing. A lot of them are financial in nature, so I’m hoping that pressure will keep on the straight and narrow when it comes to my websites.

The vague description of my goal is to duplicate my successes. The vivid goal is to take my two main earning sites and duplicate them (not copy content). I’m going to pick up an additional hosting account (with a new company) bringing my total to 3. I’m going to buy 2 domains for each of the sites (for a total of 4) and putting them on each of the hosts. Basically I end up with Site A (host 1), Site A (host 2), Site A (host 3), Site B (host 1), Site B (host 2), Site B (host 3).

I’m going to go after the same damn keywords. I’m going to have a similar link building strategy as the original successful sites. This isn’t rocket science and it isn’t complicated. I do have a little leverage already having a successful site already. I’m going to probably set up a linking pattern of a circle for one of the sites and just a link back pattern for the other. See image below to see what I mean.

It’s a pretty simple linking strategy. Remember each site is on a unique IP address, so search engines are none the wiser. I’ll be testing out both these strategies.

Aside from my plans to duplicate my two best sites I will be working on some other sites I own that I plan on making into big sites. I have two summer niche sites that I really want to prepare now, so they’re ready for the summer. They’re already up and going, but they need a ton of content and links. Summer is the slow time and I need to balance that out. I will work on my other less successful sites, but really my goal is just to maintain earnings for them. If they earn more, good stuff. Usually what I’ll do for maintenance for sites like that is I’ll write three pages of content, get some links for each page of new content and move on.

The other side of my goal is diversification. This is something that is more important than you’d like to know. I’ve been burned before, so please take my warning. You don’t want to earn too much from one player. Obviously making $2k/mth with Amazon is fine if you’re making $10k/mth. But if it is all your earnings it is sort of dangerous. As reliable as Amazon is, you never know what will happen in the future. Affiliates in Colorado had their accounts closed due to a state law that Amazon couldn’t possibly fulfill. It’s a very real possibility, so beaware of that. My general rule is that once you make it past that $1000/mth mark with a specific program you should diversify. I’m beyond that point, so it’s something I really need to do.

I’m going to work on Commission Junction (cj.com) and build that up to $1000+/mth. I might invest some time into Clickbank, but I haven’t yet decided on that. Personally, physical products have been beneficial for me. They have been consistent and they’re quite to easy to sell. When you’re talking about an informational product (ebook) you really have to prove to the reader that this is something they should buy. The commissions are definitely better for an ebook and Clickbank paying weekly direct deposits is something that can sway me.

That’s essentially the plan and as you can see it isn’t complicated. Basically content + links. Except the difference is that it will be in niches that I know are very profitable and with keywords I know work. And a rough idea on quality of links required to reach success. Make sure you have a game plan for yourself, even if you don’t have sites to duplicate. You need a good idea of what you’re going to do to make money this year.

Good luck in 2011.

PS: I logged into my Ezine Articles account (Last login was 113 days, 16 hours, 28 minutes ago ) and you should be happy to know that I published one article for them over 2010. I know a lot of you feel like this is really the only place to get a quality link. And it’s not true. I’ve stopped writing for them and their outrageous demands. Fuck them. 2010 was by far my best year and I owe it for giving the middle finger to a lot of article sites and going down a much different road.

I know that it has been a while since I actually posted. I actually started working on a how to make money post on Amazon, but never actually finished it. For those of you that are not aware, I have not been working on my sites. There are a number of reasons for this, but I still have them and I want to plow into them again. I’ve went on a bit of a sabbath and Christmas earnings have been quite exciting for me. So it’s really pulling me back in. Well, I also paid off all my student loan debt and will be starting to save for a down payment on a home, so the more money the better. So those of you that don’t think Christmas is that important check out my November earnings.

I want you to also consider the fact that I haven’t worked on my sites in about 6 months and this is what Christmas is pulling in. There is a tremendous amount of volume coming in. Christmas keywords and items you purchase at Christmas have come alive with searches. If trends for December hold I should push somewhere in between $3000-$4000 for the month with JUST Amazon. We’re talking about some nice coin here. And I like earning that kind of money, on top of my regular engineer earnings.

The next post you will see from me will be done after I have a chance to investigate my earnings and figure out what is working. I’ll give you guys an honest take on what has been working for me and what I plan on doing for the future.

Cheers,

Oh and happy holidays.

I wanted to show you my Amazon earnings for August. They’re nice and growing since the last time I talked about it. They’re not blow you away or anything like that, but the point I wanted to make is that I really haven’t been working that much on the sites since Mid-June, yet my earnings keep going up and up. It’s because of the work that I’ve been putting in before that and the fact that these sites are built on a solid foundation (SEO).

Total Invested: $408.20 (47 websites)

I didn’t buy any domain names this month for the sniper project. In fact, I think I only bought 1 domain name the whole month and just bought a .info on a spur of the moment thing. I actually bought it to help figure out a little better how to work my Christmas authority sites.

Amazon: $701.30 (Total: $1794.39)

The odd thing here is that on the 25th of April, I actually started making this post. I was just going to add in the numbers at the end of the month. Well things changed. The first 20 days of this month I was flying and was above average. I was going to fly past the $500 goal I set last month, which when I initially thought of that number I thought it was a little high for me. Starting on the 20th of the month, I had like a week of below average and slower days.

What I initially wrote was that I did beat the $500 mark (I was expecting maybe $500-$540), but that I was disappointed because I was on track for much better numbers earlier in the month. But I ended up finishing up the month very strong. On the 28th I had my first day of $102.04 in commissions (after selling $1,457.44 worth of items). Breaking the hundred dollar day is always a nice feeling for a program, even though it’s not remotely close to daily averages. I remember when I broke the hundred barrier with Clickbank and Copeac (my CPA), it’s always a nice feeling.

For May, I really want to set a goal number of $900, but I’m not going to. I’m going to aim at $800. And the reason for that is that I can’t get past the fact that this might be a fluke month. The way I see it is that if it is a fluke, I should hopefully be able to squeeze in at $800. If not, I have no problem making extra money.

I’m still stuck in the 7% commission tier at Amazon, though I entered into it the earliest time for a month, so that is a plus. I doubt I’ll even come close to breaking out of that tier and into 7.5% in May. But I’m hoping I can in the future.

I have some hefty goals though. I want Amazon up to $1000/mth before Summer (before July). And this is sort of tricky because the summer is always slow and it really depends on a lot of factors. People are on the computer less, which means you have less time to advertise to them and they’re less likely to buy. I’d be very happy if I could hold onto a full grand each month during this time with Amazon, but I guess we’ll see what happens.

Adsense: $104.46 (Total: $521.03)

This is pretty much the same as it was last month, so nothing to really say. I haven’t been pushing Adsense and I’m actually second thinking it now. There are a lot of things going on with Google and them going on full assault. I was actually curious why Grizzly’s site wasn’t in the top 10 anymore for all his MMO links. Well, he had a post toward the end of April explaining why. And there was Ben from Make Money Online with SEO that had a ton of his sites indexed from one of his Adsense accounts.

The only reason why I have Adsense(AS) earnings is that I’m trying to diversify, which is extremely important. I ran into problems starting out having all my eggs in one basket and I’m not going to repeat it. It’s this desire to diversify that has pushed me closer to the AS system, but I’ve still been apprehensive about it. I haven’t gone full steam ahead at it and I’ve exhibited paranoia with it.

I was under the impression that the most likely punishment that you’d receive from AS would be a banning and I can deal with a banning. At $100/mth, it isn’t that big of a deal. With them deindexing sites, I’m actually pretty afraid now. A banning is no big deal, but having your sites lost like that is a slap in the face. At least if I was making several thousand with them each month I could have at least saved something in a bank account. But not at a $100.

I’m officially bowing out of AS, which I’ll probably do over the next month. I was planning on pushing into AS hard after I got my Amazon above a thousand, but I’m just going to bow out of it. I’ll move onto Clickbank and Commission Junction probably.

I know some of you are thinking “don’t give up. Just make clean sites that aren’t obvious MFAs.” I just can’t get around the point that I am trying to make money with AS. That’s really the point, I’m trying to profit with it. A site about coffee tables can’t be a friendly user site for reading. I just can’t do it. And even if I do, what’s stopping the big G from banning me anyway? If they don’t like something from the traffic or if I write something wrong; BAM, I’m done. It doesn’t matter if the site is thin or thick.

I’ve written in the past about Google on my old blog and I want to point out two posts in particular; my Google Analytics (Nov. 18 2008) post and my Adsense Sucks (June 29 2008) post. Even though they’re old posts, they still hold true and contain all the same opinions I believe.

Just to sum up why Google will always be quick with the ban hammer on AS is that it has a gambling business model. It’s pay per click. That’s the equivalent of paying someone to come in you store. It’s not necessarily good for business. Contrast that with pay per sale, where someone actually has to buy for you to make money.

Consider the abuses of the two different systems. With AS you’re going to have fraud when someone disingenuously clicks on an ad and is completely not interested in what they click. When I use the word fraud, it’s not legally fraud. For a program like Amazon, fraud is when someone uses a stolen credit card. This is actually real fraud and is criminal. The system that faces more “fraud” is the system that pays you for someone clicking on a link.

The amount of abuse that Google has to deal with must be unimaginable. The crap from people that click the ads, to the spammers that autocreate thousands of blogs within a period of an hour. As long as these people exist, Google will always have a quick ban hammer. They’ll even wipe out good people or those that are right on the border between good and bad. They don’t have any desire to be fair because fair means they’re losing money.

In the end, AS advertisers have to profit. THEY HAVE TO PROFIT. Pay per click is a failed business model if advertisers don’t make a profit because they’re not coming back without that profit. And the overzealous ban hammer is the means to insure that profit is created.

The other point I want to make is similar to the point in the Google Analytics post I made. Google is an information beast and just keeps digging, digging and digging some more for information. The problem that people fail to see is that Google has the power to use information against you. They can deindex you, which is what they are apparently doing now with your AS footprint on each site.

Like I said in the Analytics post, I don’t want Google to know shit about my sites. I don’t want them know what people are doing or clicking on. I don’t want them knowing where my traffic comes from. I don’t want them to know shit because Google views me as an enemy. Let’s just cut through the shit, Google hates us because purposely move up the ranks of Google to make cash. That’s all we’re doing. They hate us, and with the right information they can fuck with us.

Okay, that is enough of that topic…

The point is that I’m stepping away from AS and just moving onto other greener pastures. I’m not the biggest fan of Clickbank because I think they’re payment processor is outdated, but they can’t deindex my sites. Plus, the weekly direct deposits are a nice touch.

On Sniper Sites

There was something that I noticed about my sniper sites. Well, at least some of them. In April, I really went back and started spending time on some of my better performing (traffic and/or profit potential) sites. I started to add in more content and do back linking. And I started to notice some trends with some of the sites.

I’ve created an extensive look at it on my main blog area titled Sniper Sites to Authority Sites. I went into a little more on that page, so you can read about it there. My objective with my sniper sites was to select one keyword, get a keyword domain and dominate that keyword. That was my only goal.

What I noticed is that sites that have a more diverse range of keyword traffic (a smaller percentage coming from the main keyword) the better the site was and the more authority it has. When I added content (which happens to be static HTML and no pinging) the pages indexed on the front page or on the second page.

Conversely, the sniper sites that were doing well for the main keyword, but little else (majority of search traffic for one term), the less authority the site had and the harder it was to get new pages to rank. It took forever for the pages to index and when they did they were well beyond the 100th position in quotes.

The point, which is obvious, is that your site needs to have that diverse range of keywords coming in. It’s probably better to target a wide range of smaller keywords, while still pounding away at your main keyword, to really make a site with authority.

This was a nice revelation to see. Some of the sites are getting closer to some major niche keywords, so I’m excited about that.

I should also point out that a lot of my sites still need work, even though I’m spending my time working on the ones with potential right now. I’ll eventually get around to all this. Building 46 sniper sites is easy, but building them into bigger sites is a lot more work lol.

I’m actually trying to think of all the things I wanted to talk about and put it in this one monthly post, but I can’t think of anything else to mention. Hopefully next month, I’ll have something to post on the Christmas authority sites I’m working on.

Total Invested: $408.20 (6 more domains)

And I guess you want a monthly breakdown of how much I’m earning with these sites. I usually just gave you a runnning total of how much I’ve earned, but I’m going to give you a month and total this time.

Amazon: $350.41 (Total: $1093.09) On 35 sites

When it comes to Amazon, I don’t feel like I’m earning what I should with it for the amount of time invested. But the thing about Amazon is that the income keeps growing each month and I think it is much more stable. If you look at a program like Clickbank, you could get 30 sales a month at $33/sale to make a grand a month. But there are variations and getting 20 sales in a month is a big change in what you make. Where as Amazon you need a high volume of sales to actually earn something that is going to pay the bills.

For this reason I think that Amazon is good. I think it is quite stable from an income point of view and that is something that I can really appreciate. Anyone that has been doing this long enough knows that fluctuations are just part of the game, but having a nice stable source is really a solid base to work with.

This was the very first month that I actually hit the 7.0% commission tier. The way Amazon works is that they show you how many sales you have got and how many sales have been shipped. They pay you on shipped items and that is what counts toward moving up the tiers. I had enough commissions last month for it, but they didn’t get all shipped and I missed out on it. lol.

My goal in April is to get my Amazon earnings to $500/mth. I just need to keep pushing traffic through the affiliate links and keep hoping for good things. I won’t pass through to the 7.5% tier next month to reach that goal. I eventually want to get this up to a $1000/mth and the sooner the better. Essentially that is all I try to do with programs now. I work at them until I get them to around $1000/mth and move on to another program to do the same. It’s my way of diversifying.

Adsense: $106.77 (Total: $416.57) On 8 sites*

I put an asterisk by the sites because I recently converted two Amazon sites to Adsense at the end of the month. They weren’t converting and some ass emailed me asking to buy one of them. I decided I better put it on Adsense to see what it is capable of earning. My Adsense earnings aren’t anything special. I really don’t have any interest in Adsense. Making more than a hundred in a month means I’ll get money wired to my bank account, but that’s about it.

I’m just a little scared to use sniper sites for Adsense because my sites are pretty thin and Google might think they’re MFA (well they are, I don’t make sites for shits and giggles). I *HEARD* that Adsense doesn’t really do an audit of your sites until you’re making about $100/day ($3000/mth). So making a $1000/mth fits in a nice safe range when audits are concerned. Still, I’m pretty reluctant with the program. I might continue to just dick around with it and slowly build it up on the side.

Total Month: $457.18 (Overall Total: $1509.66)  On 43 Sites*

I do have more than 43 sites invested into this little sniper project, but some of them are not monetized yet. Since they’re not monetized I didn’t feel like adding them into the earning statistics. I did add them into how much I invested though.

I guess while I’m still updating people on things, I should update you on things unrelated to the sniper site project. I mentioned in a post not to long ago that I’m working on Christmas Authority Sites. This was actually quite interesting because I’ve been making a little bit of money with them already. You can look at the post I gave on Christmas Authority Sites to understand the method to my madness, but it has been an interesting run so far.

I’ve found that you’ll rank for lots of shit and most of them are duds. Most will not even bring you a drip of traffic, but you’ll hit something that does get traffic. It doesn’t take anymore work then the posts that fail, so it’s nice. The best part is that when you hit the traffic, it’s something that is going to convert. Even though I’m not getting a high volume of traffic it seems to be doing decent for new sites.

A few days ago I picked up a few domains to get this a try with Clickbank as the affiliate program. I actually just wanted to get one site, but I have a rule about domains name. If I find a keyword domain I want and .net and .org (and even .com) are available, I have to buy them all. This happens because I’ve bought a .net or .org, seen it perform well and went to go back to get the their extension and it being gone. Pain in the ass! But that is an aside.

I wanted to play with Clickbank in a very minor way. As you should all know, I think Clickbank Sucks because I made a nice little blog about it. I still think they’re pretty much incompetent, but I miss the tiny trickle of sales I was getting. Since I stopped actively promoting CB I was still making sales. I’d get anywhere from 1-3 sales a week on average and with weekly payments to my bank account it was nice to see $50-100 popping into my bank account every week. It’s not a lot of money, but something that pays for groceries.

Anyway, I wanted to get my sales back to something like that and this type of site will be like that. When I used to play with CB and was making decent money with it, I was an bum marketer (which is shit). I’m going to do it with the least amount of work to see what I can earn from it. I’ll keep you posted on how that works out too. Just a note, I’ll have two of these sites on two different webhosts, which makes my sites a lot more strategic when it comes to ranking.

Let’s see, what else to update you guys on. I bought 4 sites on Sunday to help with my CPAs. I haven’t really talked about CPAs on this blog. Might be something to talk about in the future, but not now. I can’t remember if I mentioned on this site that I bought a .info domain. After hearing loads of talk on this and how they’re punished, I thought I’d give it a try. I actually found a 1 word (5 letter) .info domain available for some piece of clothing. From my experience so far it is working like a normal domain. I don’t appear to be punished or anything like that. Granted, I haven’t played with enough .info domains to really know, but so far they’re just like any other domain.

The only real concern I have right now is that I’m juggling 50+ active domains right now and I find it a bit overwhelming at times. Like, I have a lot of domains and most of them are sitting idle and earning. Meaning I built them up and they just sit to earn. They don’t need the active attention, just a little love now and then. But with 50+ active sites that need love now and need content now is overwhelming. I’m definitely going to sit down and write a post on this blog for organizing this many active sites.

I guess that’s all for now. Just an FYI to those that read to this point. Some assclown left a comment on the blog about how one of my posts was a million words long and asked me to summarize it. Fuck off. The posts are long for a reason. If I had ads, you would of clicked on them already (which is the point).

The idea behind getting the double listing is really quite simple. Let’s say that I was trying to rank for “red pants” and I have a blog post titled “The Best Red Pants of 2010″ and it ranks first for the term “red pants”. If I want to get the double listing I just make another post that has “red pants” in the title (obviously not the same title) and link both the posts together using “red pants” as the anchor. That is what you’re supposed to do based on Grizzlies post on the subject. Though that post is old and I can tell outdated.

Out of 41 attempted sites I tried to get a double listing for, only two of them have it. It would of been three, but one of my double listings disappeared. Out of the only two that actually got a double listing, one of them is double listing a page I didn’t attempt to do it for. So I suppose you could call that a natural double listing, but it doesn’t inspire hope that this particular method works.

What I’m Thinking

I have a little theory on how this must work, though I can’t fully back it up with 41 sites to verify it, but I’ll say it anyways. I think the linking pattern is something that works and I know it works because I’ve tried it with other sites. The easier it is to rank for a keyword, the easier it is to double list it. If you go after a very weak long tail keyword you can easily double list it. If you need to verify that for yourself, just try ranking for a keyword that has absolutely no competition. If you need an example of such a keyword try, “pink bucket for turkey”.

Seriously, just dick around with keywords like this and get them to double list. Something that I need to do, but haven’t is figuring out how to get a double listing twice. Let me explain what I mean, let’s say I have the two pages I want to double list…

“pink bucket for turkey” and “new pink bucket for turkey”

Now I can get to the point where if I type “pink bucket for turkey” into Google I’ll have a double listing and the second listing will be the “new pink bucket for turkey”. What I want to know how to do is get that double listing, but also if someone types in “new pink bucket for turkey” in Google, I’ll also get a double listing. That’s something I haven’t figured out yet. Feel free to dick around with that and see if you can figure that out.

The reason why I think these weak keywords are easy to double rank for is the fact that both pages need to have the ability to rank in the top 10 on their own. This is easy to see when you’re going after “pink bucket for turkey” because you don’t need any backlinks for it and absolute shit sites will rank for it. The same is true for authority sites because all new pages created have a little juice and power to them. If you have an article that ranks in the top 10 for a keyword, make another with the same keyword and you’ll probably double list. You don’t even need to link them together either.

When it comes to my sniper sites it is a little different. They’re not authority sites because they’re simply not big enough and have enough links, but they’re ranking for their selected term. I’ve built up the links to the secondary page that I want to double list and they’re not all doing that good (obviously when 2/41 double list). But I guess all I can do is wait to see what happens as I let them sit for a while and hopefully they will work.

Conclusion

Whether you can get this to work or not is irrelevant. When you do end up getting that double listing you get a lot of extra traffic for a keyword. And that is the big bonus. It doesn’t take much extra work. It’s just one page of content and building links to it. Since you should be building links to all your content, it should take no extra time.

And how much extra traffic will you get. Most people will assume that they’ll get a tiny percentage extra. If 5th position gets 3% and that is what you end up getting with your double listing, people will assume that they’ll get an extra 3% of total searches. The fact is that you’re going to see a significant jump. You’ll probably see a 30-40% jump in the amount of traffic that you’re getting from the search term. The reason is that the double listing stands out for both people and produces a better CTR.

Since it requires absolutely no extra work to orient your site to get double listings then you shouldn’t have a problem trying it. Just do it as you start building sites. As usual, start with the easy stuff to rank. When you get in the top 10 for a keyword, just try for a double listing. And just keep going with new keywords. It doesn’t have to be a difficult process.

I guess we might as well get to the money right now. In my post about niche sites, I mentioned the total of $319.71 being earned since I started into the sniper sites. That was posted on November 27th, so I thought I’d do an update for all my readers.

Total Invested:  $354.20
Total Return: $652.98

So we can all chant yippie, I’m finally in positive territory, even though no where near where I’d like it to be. I think we really need to consider the fact that I just finished doing backlinks to all my sniper sites last night. Some of them had only one page of content and no monitization (which I promptly fixed). Every single one of the 41 websites had at least one new fresh page of keyword rich content that was somewhere between 500-1000 words.

The results of that work won’t be felt for a while now. I won’t expect anything for at least a month from some of the sites, so I’m not too worried about it. As of right now, I have 5 Adsense sites and the rest are Amazon. The majority of my earnings are from Amazon as well.

I only have a few sites that are in the money spot (top 3 at Google). I have a lot of them hanging at position 4, so I’m sure they’ll push up as the link juice flows through over the next few weeks. I should also say that I picked up an additional two domains, which are not listed in the above numbers. I’m going to throw them in the category of wave 3, even though there’s just two domains. They’re following the same idea. One of them is in a niche that I expect to get hot in the next few years, so we’ll see how interesting that goes.

The other domain has to do with another topic that I want to really work into.

Dominating the Top 10

I used to think the key to dominating a niche was getting the top spot for various keywords in the niche. What I’m trying to do now is dominate the top 10 positions of a keyword. This other domain I bought was the same keyworded domain as a domain in wave 1. I had the .net, so I picked up the .org (keyword.net and keyword.org). I have both sites on different hosting accounts (different IPs) and I have them ranking 4th and 5th position in Google. It used to be 3rd and 5th, but there has been a little movement lately.

I did use two different hosting accounts for the domains just so I’d have a unique IP located in a different city. I really don’t know how suspicious Google would get if keyword.net and keyword.org were ranked in the top 10 from the same IP#. If you’ve tested this please comment and let me know.

For the same keyword I’ve also created a hub (from hubpages) and backlinked the hell out of that. It’s taking an abnormal amount of time to get indexed, but once it does I’m sure it will spring into the top 10. I’ll just keep doing that with different sites until I actually fill in the top 10. And let me tell you how useful it is to have a bunch of sites fully backlinked in a niche. The keyword.net for the site was bought first and was built, backlinked and ranked for a while. The keyword.org site is a position 5 with only one backlink from my .net site. Once I do take the top 10 over, I’ll just start going into related keywords and take over the top 10 for them. And that is how to make cash or at least how I plan to make it.

That is going to be my next little project with the sniper sites. Any site that is ranked in the top 10, I will get an additional two sites that are mine to rank in the top 10. I can do this a number of ways. I can buy a domain for the keyword. So if I have keyword.net, I’ll pick up keyword.org (if available). I’ll probably go the free route with a hubpage or something like that.

Double Google Positions

Okay, now this is something that I want to do. It will allow me to occupy an extra top 10 position without actually having to hold any new site. It’s where you have your regular listing and an indented listing below it. Well, according to Griz all you have to do is link two pieces of content together with the same keyword. I linked backed to my old sniper sites post from this post I’m doing right now. What I’ll do is go back to that old post, edit it and link to this one. That is supposedly what needs to be done to create a double listing. I want to do that too.

I guess this is something that I’ll have to get done and the date to put on this will be tough. I’m predicting the best I can is two sites a day, with two extra properties each and with a double listing. Hmmm, Well, I’m heading to the Dominican Republic in March. I want to get that all done before I have to go there.

Well, I guess that is enough for this post. Just thought I’d tell you about the sites and that I’m in a positive return now, so that is a good thing. Keep at it and keep making cash.